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The casio PX-100 finally had to go...I've traded it in for a brand new casio PX-320

The PX100 has been a wonderful piano to learn on and its size and weight have always been a big plus for me.

But, this year I've promised myself I'm gonna start gigging and today I test drove the PX-320 (just this morning in fact) and a deal to part ex the PX100 was done.

This is a fantastic keyboard

128 note polyphonyThe weight and the feel of the new keyboard is in a different league to the PX-100The piano sounds are just beautiful to my earsand it has audio outs so straight into my rig without using the rack every time and straight into audacity for recording and a SD card record facility built in, to boot!!

Sounds great Lee, congrats! My gut tells me I want a Yamaha or Roland but I tried all the pianos in a big music shop this weekend and in the lower price range I preferred the Casios by a long way. I only got my M-Audio for Christmas so my wife would kill me if I replaced it so soon, otherwise I'd be joining you!

I didn't try the PX200 or 800 sorry...however, its a better action IMHO to my old trusty PX100

I have the yamaha CLP170 at home and its very similar. The extra sampling on each key strike and the 128 note polyphony makes it feel similar to the PX100/yamaha motif combo set up I already had (but without the need for the rack all the time )

regards

Lee

I will probably add my thoughts in a few weeks/months after I've lived with it a little longer...but, this is a lot of piano for the money...I like it a lot

Very nice! Thanks a lot mate, that's actually pretty close to the kind of sound I was looking for! I think this piano would suit me very well. All I need to do now is find one to try and come up with a plausible reason to buy a new keyboard lol!

If anyone is interested in hearing how the drum machine in the PX-320 sounds...I haven't played much with these things but, I quite like the Samba one. Played around with it for a while yesterday and decided to record something.

I have also posted this in the ABF but, for anyone who is thinking of buying this keyboard feel free to take a listen

here's what I said over there:-

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Boy, I'm just lovin' my new Casio PX-320 at the moment [Big Grin]

I haven't spent much time with drum machines but had some fun yesterday afternoon trying all the rhythm patterns that the Casio has...

My favourite today is the Samba beat and it seemed to go quite well with playing "More"...so hey! here's a little goofing around with the Casio (who knows, might get you dancing this morning? [Big Grin] )

I'm new to this forum but reading this post...I'm glad I chose the PX-320 over the PX-200...despite similarities in functions...although of course, the PX-320 offers some "extras"...features-wise. I was looking for "feedbacks" regarding the PRIVIA PX-320 over the net but it seems that to date, there are only a few people who have this newer model. Truly a bang for the buck stuff though.

I must admit it's been quite addicting playing the PX-320. I've decided to give my good 'ol, aging acoustic upright piano some rest for a while.

It's sad though that unlike its predecessor (i.e. PX-310), the PX-320 doesn't have a MIDI THRU port.And at the very least, a 6-track sequencer for lush arrangements would be more welcome for this stage/home studio PRIVIA model. Nevertheless, this is a digital piano FIRST and keyboard/organ-stuff" SECOND so what the heck...I can probably live with that...my PC, cakewalk sonar and DXi/VST are around anyways if the need for DAW arises.

A pitch bend wheel would also come in handy. And I must say, I like the breathy ALTO and TENOR SAX patches.

I could only imagine how great it would be if CASIO would come up with a 128-note polyphony version of the older PRIVIA PX-410R (perhaps it would be called something like PX-420R or somethin' to that effect)...with its drawbar organ function, built-in sequencer and hundreds of tones to choose from, it'll probably be a viable full-featured, non-Yamaha/Korg/roland/Kawai portable digital piano by far. Now this is probably the one thing that would make me sell my recently bought PX-320.

seaside_Lee: Your PX-320 demonstration is very helpful for me. Could you please post some church organ and string sounds sample? Thank you very much. I have tried PX-120 and thinking about PX-320 order without trying